This is a compilation to a PUBYAC question. If you're a member check out the archives for 8-22-2011, Transitioning to YA.

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see also: Clean Authors

              Middle Grade (6-8) Reads 

 

Echo Falls Mysteries--Abrahams

Little Women--Alcott

Gypsy Rizka--Alexander

Gilda Joyce series--Allison

The Naked Mole-Rat Letters--Amato

Fever 1793--Anderson

Frog Princess--Baker

Chasing Vermeer--Balliet

Peeled--Bauer

Rules of the Road--Bauer

Backwater--Bauer

Hope Was Here--Bauer

Red Blazer Girls -- Beil

Little Blog on the Prarie--Bell

Anne Frank and Me--Bennett

Perfectly Dateless--Billerbeck

Shark Girl--Bingham

The Penderwicks--Birdsall

The Princess Plot--Boie

Three Willows: The Sisterhood Grows--Brashares

The Karma Club--Brody

My Life Undecided--Brody

The Sisters Grimm series--Buckley

All-American Girl--Cabot

Princess Diaries--Cabot

Aria of the Sea--Calhoun

Diary of a Teenage Girl series--Carlson

True Colors series--Carlson

Gallagher Girls series--Carter

Heist Society--Carter

Sahara Special--Codell

Vive La Paris--Codell

Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party--Compestine

Walk Two Moons--Creech

Bloomability--Creech

The Dark Divine--Despain

A Bone from a Dry Sea--Dickinson

Models Don't Eat Chocolate Cookies--Dionne

The Secret Language of Girls--Dowell

City of Ember--Duprau

Car Trouble--DuPrau

Prom and Prejudice--Euhlberg

The Gravesavers--Fitch

Love Among the Walnuts--Fleischman

Seedfolks--Fleischman

The Mother/Daughter Book Club--Frederick

The Possibilities of Sainthood--Freitas

Mallory series--Friedman

Inkheart--Funke

My Side of the Mountain--George

Princess of the Midnight Ball--George

The Death By Bikini Mysteries--Gerber

My Life in Pink and Green--Greenwald

Sierra series--Gunn

Just Ella--Haddix

Princess Academy--Hale

Book of a Thousand Days--Hale

Bayern series--Hale

The Goose Girl--Hale

Clique series--Harrison

Boston Jane trilogy--Holm

You Wish--Hubbard

A Company of Swans--Ibbotson

Journey to the River Sea--Ibbotson

Island of the Aunts--Ibbotson

Nancy Drew--Keene

Lily on the Brink of Being Cool--Kimmel

Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs--Koertge

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler--Konigsburg

Son of the Mob--Korman

Pop--Korman

The Girls--Koss

Gossip Times Three--Koss

Skulduggery Pleasant series--Landy

Hattie Big Sky--Larson

Sean Griswold’s Head--Leavitt

Mandy series--Leppard

Ella Enchanted--Levine

Fairest--Levine

Call of the Wild--London

White Fang--London

Rules--Lord

Betsy-Tacy--Lovelace 

Anastasia books--Lowry

Heat--Lupica

Beautiful--Martinusen Coloma

11 Birthdays--Mass

Saffy's Angel series--McKay

Spindle's End--McKinley

My Sister the Vampire series--Mercer

Heart land--Miller

Bras and Broomsticks--Mlynowski

Anne of Green Gables--Montgomery

Ruined--Morris

Winnie Years series(others tiles, like ttyl, are YA)--Myracle

Alice books (but when Alice reaches high school they get racier)--Naylor

Island of the Blue Dolphins--O'Dell

Airborn--Oppel

The Inkheart series--Paolini

Wedding Planner's Daughter series--Paratore

Transall Saga--Paulsen

The Adoration of Jenna Fox--Pearson

Alanna: The First Adventure--Pierce

The Westing Game--Raskin

Where the Red Fern Grows--Rawls

Percy Jackson & The Olympians--Riordan

Becoming Naomi Leon--Ryan

The Teashop Girls--Schaefer

Okay for Now--Schmidt

The Near Witch--Schwab

The Alchemyst--Scott

Saving Juliet--Selfors

Black Beauty--Sewell 

Back When You Were Easier to Love--Smith

The Witch of Blackbird Pond--Speare

Eggs--Spinelli

Stargirl--Spinelli

The Enola Holmes series--Springer

Dusssie--Springer

Bella at Midnight--Stanley

The Mysterious Benedict Society--Stewart

Girl of the Limberlost--Stratton-Porter

I So Don't Do Mysteries series--Summy

Somebody Everybody Listens To--Supplee

Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree--Tarshis

A Crooked Kind of Perfect--Urban

Flipped--Van Drennen

Uglies--Westerfeld

Paranormalcy--White

Make Lemonade--Wolff

Dealing with Dragons--Wrede

Elsewhere--Zevin

Girls of Many Lands series